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Name: CRAWFORD, Edmund Walker (Rev. Canon)
Nee: bro of Thomas William Walter Crawford
Birth Date: 7.5.1874 London, Ontario, Canada
Death Date: 27.9.1946 Highbury, London
First Date: 1902 - formerly in S. America
Profession: CMS missionary. He and his wife worked most of the time in Kikuyu country and at the Coast
Area: Rabai, Kikuyu country and at coast, 1930 Mombasa, 1909 Fort Hall
Married: 1. In Rabai 5.5.1903 Alice 'Kathleen' Malone b. 2 Mar 1872 Rathmines, d. 29 Aug 1943 Great Witcombe, Glos. She had worked with the CMS in E. Africa since 1897
Children: Kathleen Beatrice (Mombasa Apr 1904-1998); Emily Margery (Portrush, Ulster 12.10.1905-1994; Isaac James Walter (Portrush 30.8.1907)
Book Reference: Gillett, SE, Bewes, EAHB 1905, KAD, Red 25, Red 31, EAS, Hut, North, EA Diary 1903, Drumkey, Red 22, EAS, EAHB 1906, CMS, Foster, EAHB 1904, EAHB 1907, Leader14
General Information:
SE - Rev. E.W. Crawford - July 1908
Bewes - Dr. & Mrs Crawford opened up a medical station at Kahuhia before they moved on to Embu
The African Standard - 26-2-1903 - Invited to the wedding of H.R. Phelips & Miss Jacquette Edith Lambe in Mombasa - assisted in the marriage ceremony
Red 22 - Hon. Secretary, Mombasa Seamen's Institute
EAS - 15/1/1903 - Rev. E.W. Crawford returned to the Coast …. Had a rather severe bout of fever up-country.
North has Edmund Walker Crawford
CMS - 1902 - Edmund Walker Crawford. Age 28. Of Canada. Born at London, Ontario. Huron Coll. Canada. 1897 June Deacon and 1898 Priest by Bp. Huron. 1897-8 Incumbent of Teeswater, Ont.; 1898-9 of Comber, Ont. 1899-1901 to the Paraguayan Chaco Brazil, under South American Missionary Society. 1902 April 1 Accepted in Local Connexion in E. Africa Mission sanctioned. Stationed at Mombasa. 1903 April, Shimba. 1904 Feb. Rabai. Brother of T.W.W. Crawford. Married 1903 May 5 A.K. Malone
EAHB 1905 - at Rabai.
KAD 1922 - Hon. Sec. and Treasurer, Mombasa Seamen's Institute
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